This is a $412,035 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the National Institute of Aerospace Associates (NIA), a non-profit research institute. The grant supports research to improve understanding of the connections between fuels, fire, weather, atmospheric chemistry, and smoke transport, which are critical to assessing impacts on air quality, atmospheric chemistry, and climate. The research involves providing support to guide flight planning for the...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC21K1456, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the National Institute of Aerospace Associates (NIA), a non-profit research and graduate education institute. The $439,151.00 grant funds a research project aimed at enhancing the understanding of atmospheric composition by investigating the impact of wildfires on emissions. The award does not have a set-aside designation. NIA, the prime contractor, is based in...
The National Institute of Aerospace Associates (NIA), a Hampton, Virginia-based non-profit research organization specializing in aerospace and atmospheric science, received a $46,000 research grant from a Civilian Shared Services Center with an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2026. This grant, awarded on September 1, 2025, supports research related to prescribed fire and wildfire risk reduction, with particular focus on balancing fire management strategies in regions like the Southeastern...
This federal contract award, valued at $212,437.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the National Institute of Aerospace Associates (NIA), a non-profit research organization based in Hampton, Virginia. The contract is for applied research in wildland fire science, with the goal of developing gridded fire probability maps. The work supports NASA's Applied Sciences Program and is not set aside for any specific business category. As...
This federal contract award was granted by a civilian U.S. government agency to the National Institute of Aerospace Associates (NIA), a non-profit research and graduate education institute. The $729,391 grant supports NIA's participation as an interactive member of the Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (HAQAST), with the goal of enabling enhanced user decision-making for improving air quality and health. NIA has extensive expertise in areas such as computational fluid dynamics,...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Duke University Office of Research Administration Division, a private non-profit educational institution, to conduct research on the effects of biomass burning on the chemical and climate system. The $452,564.59 grant will fund a project to enhance NASA's GISS Model E coupled chemistry-climate model, including improvements to the prognostic fire simulator and injection height model. The research involves...
This is a $558,075 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the National Institute of Aerospace Associates (NIA), a non-profit research and graduate education institute. The grant is for research to characterize the wet scavenging process, which is a dominant loss process for aerosols, but has high uncertainty in model parameterizations, contributing to large uncertainties in simulated aerosol loadings and radiative forcing. The grant does not have a set-aside...
This $533,815 grant contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA), a non-profit research institute. The contract is for research on the composition of stratospheric aerosols, which can be dominated by large volcanic eruptions that inject sulfur into the stratosphere. NIA has previously supported NASA with a range of aerospace and atmospheric research services as a prime contractor and subcontractor, leveraging its...
This is a federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Iowa for a research project related to the interactions and feedbacks between biomass burning and the water cycle. The $165,872.31 grant will fund a study led by Dr. Wang that uses a mesoscale meteorology-chemistry coupled atmospheric model, satellite data, and fire emission data to quantitatively assess the semi-direct effect of sub-Saharan African smoke on atmospheric lapse rate and...
This federal contract award, valued at $105,000.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to support research on the detection and radiative effects of above-cloud biomass burning aerosols over the southeast Atlantic region. The goals are to utilize satellite data from the A-Train constellation and the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) geostationary sensor, along with in-situ aircraft...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX16AM30G, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the National Institute of Aerospace Associates (NIA), a non-profit research organization based in Hampton, Virginia. The $494,873 grant supports research to develop innovative products that leverage data from the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) satellite, as well as other NASA sensors, to better understand the distribution and injection height of biomass burning smoke plumes. This work aims to improve modeling and prediction of atmospheric processes influenced by biomass burning, such as cloud formation, precipitation patterns, and air quality. The research will involve creating a database linking smoke plume characteristics to ecosystem, fire-specific, and meteorological variables, as well as producing verification and validation data to refine aerosol and smoke products from the CALIPSO mission. This grant supports NASA's strategic goals of advancing scientific understanding of complex Earth system processes and their feedback mechanisms. There is no set-aside designation associated with this award.